Temporal-Influenced Geospatial Modeling System and Method

a geospatial modeling and temporal influence technology, applied in the field of spatial modeling, can solve the problems of not simultaneously allowing rapid assessment determinations with increased accuracy, past systems make no effort to account for temporal aspects, and limited systems, so as to increase the chances of positive influence, the effect of accurately and quickly assessing the likelihood of future events or results

Active Publication Date: 2011-08-04
MAXAR MISSION SOLUTIONS INC
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[0006]The present invention, in part, considers geographical features and multiple types of measurements connecting past incidents to those features as part of an overall system and method for rapidly and accurately assessing likelihoods of future events or results. The present invention builds upon the assessed likelihoods through an influence element for analyzing most relevant variables, assessing their individual and combined abilities to influence the event or result type, and initiating a real-world response based on the assessment in order to increase the chances of positively affecting or influencing real-world behavior. In one embodiment, the present invention considers past data associated with several event-types in order to arrive at an assessment. The real-world response can be a computer simulation offering options for a real world response, a report offering suggestions with cost / time analysis, or a physical or informational action resulting / communicated directly from the assessment, for example.

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Further, past systems are limited in that they do not simultaneously allow for rapid assessment determinations with increased accuracy.
Further, past systems make no effort to account for temporal aspects of events and event-types as they relate to the geospatial environment.

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[0111]The following example is provided as an illustrative case of the operation of the present invention.

[0112]User A is a metropolitan crime analyst who develops planning maps for the tasking of law enforcement units. Due to a recent increase in breaking and entering offenses, User A desires to create a summary map that will describe the likelihood of a breaking and entering event occurring throughout her city.

[0113]FIG. 14 is an example geographical depiction of an area of interest 140 within User A's city, available through the boundary component of the present invention. As noted by elements 141 in FIG. 15, User A can apply training data from the previous month's breaking and entering offenses onto the area of interest, using training data input component 30. As shown in FIG. 16, User A can then import relevant base layer data from her city as available through layer component. The layers included are “roads”142, “rivers”143, “cul-de-sacs”144, and “street lamps”145.

[0114]User A...

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[0117]The following example is provided as an additional illustrative case of the operation of the present invention.

[0118]User B is a planning district manager deciding on the best location for a new municipal fire station. There are twenty-two possible neighborhoods in the city where a fire station could be located. User B would like to recommend a location that will place the new fire station in the area most likely to have fire incidents causing a significant amount of damage based on observed data for the previous year. The travel time for an emergency vehicle to the fire location is the primary measure of distance for this task. Data for city locations is stored in a parcel map outlining each identified parcel in the community; these parcels will be used as the output grid for the analysis.

[0119]As shown in FIG. 21, User B applies training data 210 from the previous year's house fire incidents. In this example, User B uses the invention to import relevant base layer data from ...

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[0123]The following example is provided as an additional illustrative case of the operation of the present invention.

[0124]User C is a shopping mall designer / manager. The flow of shoppers through the facility and their shopping habits is of interest to User C. C creates a spatial assessment of shopping for electronics making use of the invention. User C realizes that there is far too much traffic concentrated at the south entrance to the shopping mall and wishes to move a portion of the traffic to the north entrance area. User C determines that he can modify the locations of valet parking stations, ATM machines, and mall security stations. By examining the attraction-avoidance index for each feature, User C discovers that ATMs and valet parking are attractor features, while security stations are repellors. User C uses the Spatial Behavior Modification tool to find the best locations for the available features, and determines locations for the ATMs, valet parking, and security statio...

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Abstract

A temporal-influenced geospatial modeling system and method forecasts the likelihood of desirable and undesirable events. In one aspect, the present invention designates at least one temporal feature, determines an intensity function representing an expected value of event type instances corresponding to the temporal feature, determines a time window break associated with the intensity function and assesses whether the time window break is a critical time point for the event type.

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REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. non-provisional patent application Ser. No. 11 / 978,449, filed Oct. 29, 2007, entitled “Temporal-influenced Geospatial Modeling System and Method”, which is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. non-provisional patent application Ser. No. 11 / 098,510, filed Apr. 4, 2005, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,346,597 and entitled “Method and System for Event and Result Prediction based on Geospatial Modeling”, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference.TECHNICAL FIELD[0002]The present invention relates to spatial modeling, and more particularly provides a computer-implemented, temporal-influenced geospatial modeling system and method associated with events and event-types that assists in forecasting occurrences of identifiable events and / or results.BACKGROUND ART[0003]Geospatial modeling offers an approach to solutions to a variety of corporate, governmental and individual proble...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06N5/02
CPCG06N5/02G06Q10/04
Inventor DALTON, JASON R.
Owner MAXAR MISSION SOLUTIONS INC
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